Blessed (or damned, with this music) Kathleen Brennan when she convinced him to write for the theater. This album is a wonder from beginning to end, even on the twentieth listen... The devilish falsetto of "Temptation," the march with the rooster of "I'll be Gone," the typical style of his theatrical writing that will reappear in the other three albums of this kind, which is exalted with "Innocent When You Dream" or "Frankie's Theme," the drunken, crazy, and sickly Sinatra of "I'll Take New York," the perfection of pieces like "Yesterday is Here" and "Down in the Hole," the bouncy Ribotchitarrina and the final organ intro of "Telephone Call From Istanbul"... Let's even make it to the fiftieth listen, shall we...
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